Very small amounts

Usage examples of mites.

It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.

But anyways, the guys at the Flea Circus say that sometimes the mites go to war with each other.

Nell thought that the specks were mites, but Harv insisted that mites were too small to be seen, that the stick was a magic wand and the specks were fairy dust.

Nell knew that there must be mites in there, to make those mediaglyphics, and so she took one of the chopsticks as her magic wand.

Victorian immune system, and of these, most were immunocules whose job was to drift around the dirty littoral of New Chusan using lidar to home in on any other mites that might disobey protocol.

He collected artificial mites like some batty Victorian lepidopterist.

An unknown number of tag mites passed through these openings and embedded themselves in his clothing and flesh.

He discarded all of his clothing and scrubbed himself vigorously at a public shower before returning to his domicile, but three hundred and fifty tag mites remained in his flesh and were later extracted during the course of our examination.

The suspect was placed under arrest and additional tag mites found in his body, tending to support our suspicions.

Flea Circus is nothing more than an effort to collect evolved mites with useful features.

The perpetrators took certain precautions to prevent the mites from attaching.

X had released any more of those book-hunting mites into the airspace of the Leased Territories, Judge Fang knew that he was still offering a nice bounty to anyone who could tell him the whereabouts of the book in question.

Casting an eye into the street, where a rushing brown stream carried litter, road dust, choleraridden sewage, and tons of captive nanotech toward the storm drains, he slipped off his leather shoes and exchanged them for a pair of handtooled cowboy boots, made from hides of gaudy reptiles and avians, the pores of which had been corked with mites that would keep his feet dry even if he chose to wade through the gutters.

The fabricules making up her clothing- countless mites linked elbow-to-elbow in a two-dimensional array- went to work pumping away the water trapped in the interstices.

The six mites burst from their prison and rocketed down the stairs, their eager stings jutting forward.